Description of problem: After the following RHEL 5.2 packages (listed in /var/log/up2date) were updated on 2008/07/31, Firefox (firefox-3.0.1-1.el5) is unable to open email at mail.yahoo.com. There was no problem opening email at mail.yahoo.com prior to these upgrade. [Thu Jul 31 13:28:07 2008] up2date Adding packages to package profile: ['java-1.5.0-ibm-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-demo-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-devel-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-javacomm-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'java-1.5.0-ibm-src-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5', 'libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2', 'libxslt-devel-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2', 'libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2', 'nfs-utils-1.0.9-35z.el5_2'] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.0.1-1.el5 (installed on 2008/07/16) RPM packages listed above How reproducible: Always (every time since the above updates were applied). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open http://mail.yahoo.com/, Firefox successfully loads login page 2. Enter user ID and password, press enter. 3. Firefox unable to load subsequent page, Firefox view area is blank, and the blue "loading" cursor just keeps on spinning forever (until I click on the "stop" button several minutes later to abort it). Actual results: Firefox stalls and does not finish loading Yahoo email. The blue circular cursor spins forever. Expected results: Firefox shows Yahoo email summary, Inbox and other folders, as it had been working on 2008/07/30, before the above updates were applied. Additional info: I also had Firefox 2.0.0.11 installed on the system, so I tried Firefox 2.0.0.11 and it also did not work.
Works fine here: $ rpm -q firefox java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin firefox-3.0.1-1.el5 java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin-1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el5 $ readlink /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-ibm/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigtk2.so Did only mail.yahoo.com stop working for you, or all java applets? Also, are you sure the Yahoo! webmail application uses java? I can't find any indication of that on the subsequent page or in its html source.
I might also add that I'm running libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2, too (which is a package required by Firefox). Still, I can read my Yahoo! e-mails just fine.
Radek, I appreciate Your quick response. Let me see whether I can get some help on my end to further narrow down or eliminate some factors. Dewey
I am almost certain that mail.yahoo.com doesn't use java at all -- I have it now running (including embedded Messenger) and no java process is running.
Do you see anything in console when running firefox from the gnome-terminal?
Radek, Matej, I just tried connecting to Yahoo Mail through a proxy using SSH tunneling and it now works. The proxy is on a different network, so the person helping me thinks it's a network problem. I also had problems connecting some other websites, such as www.library.utexas.edu, www.thestar.com, but no problem now through the proxy. There is no message in the console either when Firefox stalls on the direct connection or connects successfully through the proxy. Let's close this issue. I'm sorry to have wasted Your time and very much appreciate the help. Dewey
No problem, that's our job. I hope you'll find how to make it work for you.